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Retrieving the best of the past in order to serve the future: An interview with Jason C. Paone

May 17, 2025 Carl E. Olson 6

Jason C. Paone, PhD, is the editor of Word on Fire Academic and a Managing Editor of The New Ressourcement journal. He studied the classics and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving […]

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Satisfying the ‘hungry heart’: an interview with Bishop Barron 

March 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

In addition to the spiritual maladies of the times, Bishop Robert Barron says he also sees opportunities for both evangelization and renewal in the Church. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News in Depth

CNA Newsroom, Mar 16, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Bis… […]

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Word on Fire to launch master’s program in evangelization with St. Thomas-Houston

March 15, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire, which announced on March 13, 2024, that its institute will partner with the University of St. Thomas, Houston, to launch a master’s program in evangelization and culture this summer. / Credit: Word … […]

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Reading the Word and feeding the soul with philosopher Peter Kreeft

October 26, 2023 Kenneth Craycraft 3

One of the more egregious errors of the Protestant revolt in the sixteenth century was displacing the Eucharist as the source and summit of the liturgy and replacing it with the proclamation of the Word […]

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In pursuit of philosophical literacy: A review of Socrates’ Children

May 27, 2023 Dr. Sam Nicholson 6

Philosophy is notoriously difficult to introduce by means of a single book. The trouble is that while the discipline of philosophy is primarily concerned with abstract argumentation, its subject matter is inextricably bound to a […]

Books

This is not why I left Protestantism

February 7, 2023 Casey Chalk 74

It was the late summer of 2010. I was a Protestant seminary student, but I had been studying (and disputing) various claims made by the Catholic Church, precipitated by the recent conversion of one of […]

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Harvard scientist: The wonders of the universe point to a Creator

January 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

The Pillars of Creation, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. / NASA/Public Domain

St. Louis, Mo., Jan 21, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).
The wonders we see in the universe “should draw us out of ourselves,” an Ivy League scientist said last week, “… […]

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A beginner’s guide to reading Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI

January 5, 2023 Carl E. Olson 4

A couple of days ago, looking through and re-reading sections from some of the many (many!) books by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI, I took this photo and posted it on Twitter and Facebook: To my […]

Books

New Word on Fire book details Newman’s battles against doctrinal corruption

November 16, 2022 Casey Chalk 12

Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]

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Word on Fire’s Robert Barron installed as bishop of Rochester, Minnesota

July 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Episcopal Installation of Bishop Robert Barron as the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester / Co-Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist YouTube

Washington D.C., Jul 29, 2022 / 14:21 pm (CNA).
Bishop Robert Barron, the founder of the Cat… […]

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